Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... Rebellion in a work like the present . Nothing of the kind has been attempted . The prominent features only have been sketched ; and that solely for the purpose of bringing into the distinct foreground him whose life is under ...
... Rebellion in a work like the present . Nothing of the kind has been attempted . The prominent features only have been sketched ; and that solely for the purpose of bringing into the distinct foreground him whose life is under ...
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... rebellion , and a President and Vice - President appointed . Meanwhile a convention , composed of delegates from most of the Free States , and from all the border Slave States , was striving , at Washington , to heal existing ...
... rebellion , and a President and Vice - President appointed . Meanwhile a convention , composed of delegates from most of the Free States , and from all the border Slave States , was striving , at Washington , to heal existing ...
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... rebellion . A series of resolutions , however , aiming at peace on the basis of a preserved Union was agreed to by a majority , and the body adjourned on the 1st of March . On the 11th of February , moreover , the National House of ...
... rebellion . A series of resolutions , however , aiming at peace on the basis of a preserved Union was agreed to by a majority , and the body adjourned on the 1st of March . On the 11th of February , moreover , the National House of ...
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... rebellion ren- dered this a work of more time than was satisfactory to many . The Davis dynasty , at Montgomery , having , on the 9th of March , passed an act to organize a Confederate army , two persons one from Alabama and the other ...
... rebellion ren- dered this a work of more time than was satisfactory to many . The Davis dynasty , at Montgomery , having , on the 9th of March , passed an act to organize a Confederate army , two persons one from Alabama and the other ...
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... rebellion , or to remain in the Union , for the sake of furthering the ends of the rebels . The object of the visit , and its result , may be determined from Mr. Lincoln s response : " GENTLEMEN : -As a committee of the Virginia Conven ...
... rebellion , or to remain in the Union , for the sake of furthering the ends of the rebels . The object of the visit , and its result , may be determined from Mr. Lincoln s response : " GENTLEMEN : -As a committee of the Virginia Conven ...
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